Applicability of Hot-Dry-Windy Index for Possible Predictability of Forest Fire Cases in Central India

Manoj K Srivastava1, Bharat Ji Ji Mehrotra2, Suraj K Pandey3, Vasu Singh3, A K Srivastava4 and Deen Mani Lal4, (1)Banaras Hindu University, Department of Geophysics, Varanasi, 221, India, (2)Department of Geophysics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, (3)Banaras Hindu University, Department of Geophysics, Varanasi, India, (4)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India